elsewhere the heat of the sun is relentless this is cameroon and central africa here in the stream bed of the mile below river signs of despair are everywhere. and. the north of cameroon receives 2 months of rainfall a year at most in august and september during the rest of the year people must walk far to find water or dig deep. older people who live here say that water used to flow abundantly through the mile below river into the log on river and eventually discharging into lake chad. but those days are gone. into what kind of power works for the current charity organization in the region his job is to ward off the looming humanitarian catastrophes. access to drinking water is an enormous problem for people and animals here in the far north of cameroon. often visits villages near the prevention capital of. today he's in home to many herders. has been a social worker for many years and knows the signs of an impending humanitarian catastrophe. in the summer of 2018 the region was on the brink. of much of. a look at nana only women used to fetch my own but now it's so bad the entire fam

released satellite images off the blazes we saw that they were actually mall fi is burning in 7 and central africa and those burning in the amazon today some of those fires all still burning all correspondence address increase was recently in both namibia and. in mozambique where they off is that if it doesn't rain soon the damage may be irrepairable. elizabeth and for the rushes together firewood for cooking before that timber too in flames the bush fires near go wrong in central mozambique are not only a threat to the environment people are also at risk. you know the fires came from back there far away from here. they were they had already burned down to houses. the owners had just gone on a short trip to my somethings in the village people who were and when they came back the houses were gone. and full of suspects that hunters set the fire as a way to hunt wild animals while she's gathering woods 2 men walk past carrying shackled they say they're just porters and had nothing to do with the fires. for. it's illegal to set fires here or did the commodity for it but people don't care. if. they. sa

news saying he hoped it would encourage more similar investment the country has been a leader in central africa and preserving forests having created 13 national parks since the turn of the millennium. the world's oldest travel company thought muskoka has collapsed after failing to secure a last minute bailout more than half a 1000000 people worldwide are currently on holiday with the group the u.k. aviation authority is beginning an operation to bring customers stranded abroad back to britain it's being billed as the largest repatriation effort and british peacetime history. polities a chance to distress and recharge the batteries not so for these travellers among hundreds of thousands of thomas cook customers wondering how well now they're going to get hold. they just how disconnected i think the r.b.a. rejects get so we should get more information but we're not too sure this is a nightmare they mistrust. not want it really people who are told to call can you do if you're overseas on a thomas cook holiday and you can continue to enjoy your holiday the cia is launching a report in this is the

the news saying he hoped it would encourage similar investments country has been a leader in central africa and preserving forests having created 13 national parks since the turn of the linea. and that's it for me in the business team here in berlin of course find out more about these and other stories online at www dot com slash business i'm stephen beers and it's watch. i'm not laughing out. loud sometimes i am but i found nothing which is that we should have been think steve winter gemma culture looking at the stereotype question but if you're thinking of countries i'm not. prepared for this drama. it's a laugh and. i might show join me from the jevons on v.w. . post. pics to. to take one step further. and face the possible. look you're on this side of love really time to search the unknown to. find for the truth out of. time to overcome boundaries. and connect the world. has time for cutting. the deficit is coming up ahead. for minds. the fall of the berlin wall become long before november 989. the heroes of eastern europe. we talk to those who began the struggle for freedom closer pers

the news saying he hoped it would encourage similar investments country has been a leader in central africa and preserving forests having created 13 national parks since the turn of the millennium. and that's it for me in the business team here in berlin of course find out more about these and other stories online at the dhobi dot com slash business i'm seeing there's a to watch. in syria no mercy in germany no. surprise visit to an alleged war criminal. the confrontation was preceded by research that pushed both investigators and reporters to their limit. criminals in germany tracking down a son's henchman. to some next detail. how do people. survived in one of the driest places on earth. for thousands of years they used to melt water from the glaciers. but climate change is forcing people in lot doc to find other solutions artificial mini glaciers made in winter now supplied the valley with water some. 60 minutes on t.w. . world unto itself. the finest musical compositions. going through me that he was into them don't tell me that that's he never wrote. and the joint should come up in the

originally captured by portuguese slavers in west central africa, these were the first reported africans to arrive in english north america. and they were treated much as slaves were in other european colonies, regardless of age or gender. the irony was not lost on the old world. english men of letters samuel johnson asked, that we hear the loudest yelps for negroes? how is it? well, this is how. we are not perfect. we are a fallen and essential people. we get some things right, and some things wrong. we try and we fail, but we must try again and again and again, for only in trial is progress possible. and the story of america is in fact the story of progress. at our best we reach out, we look ahead, and we dream big. and at our best, we close the gap between the ideal and the real. nation, like the test of an individual, cannot be perfection, for perfection is not possible until the arrival of the new heavens and the new earth. the test, rather, turns on how often we heed our better angels rather than our worst instincts. the work of america is not done. the american revolution, indeed,

because it's a unique and big mammal that roam around from central africa and we wouldn't be able to say such magnificent creatures like us don't do what ryan did you know what other species we would be able to safe distance is really something like a flagship like a single for what we do today. and we do want to see each of these in regard to marriage or we want to show producers the chance even for the special that are on the brink of extinction because we have to create good of a predicted and we just have to adjust it for the writers so why we should be doing . all right. from the good kind of a zoo in the czech republic thank you so much for joining us. thank you very much for interest now who needs to own a car that's a growing question in big cities where public transport and ride sharing apps are common and young people are typically more concerned about their carbon footprint. went to the frankfurt motor show to see if you can be convinced to get behind someone else's wheel. i'm almost 30 and i've never owned a car and why would i like living in berlin means i can get anywhe

elsewhere the heat of the sun is relentless this is cameroon and central africa. here in the stream bed of the mile below river signs of despair are everywhere. in. the north of cameroon receives 2 months of rainfall a year at most in august and september during the rest of the year people must walk far to find water or dig deep. older people who live here say that water used to flow abundantly through the mile below river into the low gone river and eventually discharging into lake chad. but those days are gone. they do are cut up our works for the current charity organization in the region his job is to ward off the looming humanitarian catastrophes. access to drinking water is an enormous problem for people and animals here in the far north of cameroon. often visits villages near the provincial capital of my rule. today he's in home to many herders. has been a social worker for many years and knows the signs of an impending humanitarian catastrophe. in the summer of 2018 the region was on the brink. of what might be. a little no no i mean women used to fact but

is the central africa director of human rights watch and joins us now via skype from burlington in vermont thanks very much for being with us. q. 1st war how significant is this. well this is a significant trial maries come to is the de facto leader of the opposition in cameroon and there were serious irregularities with last year's trial which gave paul b. you're the current president in 7th term and this is in our current opinion a human rights watch another example of the courts be used to crackdown on dissent and to crush political opponents it is worth pointing out that while those cases emblematic there are hundreds of others of members of his own party the m.r.c. by its french acronym who are also in detention and this is also occurring amidst a series of other issues happening in cameroon most pressing of which is the crisis that's continues to unfold in the angle phone regions and we've also seen the courts who used against separatist leaders in these regions as well so it's something we're following very much but it certainly does not bode well the trial of count 2 in this milita

bloodshed and death during those 25 years but most of it was the consequence in the balkans in central africa, in syria, of civil war or militia, mistreating civilians. but the conflicts that we saw, the death and dying we saw were not the result of clashes between and among powerful armies using the most advanced weaponry and it's wars like that that are by far the greatest creators of death and destruction. we didn't have those and what i see in retrospect as the golden 25 years and we didn't really have any serious prospect of such a conflict. why was that? why were these 2.5 decades so peaceful? in my view it was not at all accidental. we had a deep peace because of the unusually robust presence of three-piece promoting features of the international system. the first of these was the benign hegemony of the united states. america was the big kid on the block and even if those countries that were particularly happy about this didn't dare challenge us in a serious way. the second major piece promoting feature was economic interdependence. this was one of the great ages of globalization. we k

hotter still for caro's try that across northern parts of africa a little bit of cloud just into parts of morocco so the fair weather for ati central parts of africa those showers across the equitorial belt wrapping up. the latest news as it breaks while the lunar lander has been tossed off missions expect to see the images will be all but with details coverage dangers remain from black blood the wrong phrase before christmas when i walk through the eastern 3rd of dorian. from around the world his body will lie in state for a few days did he leave the 8 at the national geo cities in the capital. 2 planes from studio and 15 checked no hotel mr muir musharaff missing for 5 days it is possible to fully clean the premises all forensic evidence but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned from mystery wanted to give a big supply of the stuff to speak about the hole in the books before even the saudi government gives up with just a drama murder in a saudi consulate on al jazeera. welcome back reminder of the top stories say on al-jazeera polls have closed in afghanistan and the lection marred by several taliban attacks

that spike in crude prices is rising inflation concerns in south africa where traders had expected cotton benchmark interest rates when central bank officials meet on thursday traders now put the odds of a rate cut at about even south africa imports some 40 percent of its oil from saudi arabia another reason the central bank might leave lending rates untouched recent cuts haven't done much to help the country's sluggish economy. the e.u. is competition regulator has approved a major deal between utilities r w e and with conditions the deal would see take control of green power unit energy as part of a complex as asses the european commission has concluded it would not lead to higher choice or higher prices for consumers but the approval depends on selling solve its business in hungary and the czech republic. now it could be the world's 2nd largest i.p.o. this year when brewing giant on the shores of bush in bed kicks off a 2nd attempt to spin off its asian business in hong kong the i.p.o. on wednesday will be worth up to $6600000000.00 u.s. dollars and a test of investor appetite following anti-government protests that have r

living with nature and learning from it is something over central narrative of this week's africa it's also a message the indigenous some people in south africa want to pass on to everyone the sun people recently opened up a new culture set according to what 2 means what a hole in the sun long which the sun have built a tremendous culture knowledge about and nature on plant life visitors can find out about it in the new culture center africa took a 2 hour. and learned until hope's a shake creatures but bongo knows how to get up close slowly and steadily and from down. his people the sun hunt the animals but today he's only checking up on the hood elements have special significance for this one. if you look at the structure of the animal itself is quite massive it can provide a lot of weight it can provide a lot of the centimes a blanket the steam is used as a blanket and there is also offset they use it for cooking they use it for a solution the use of for cleaning themselves. doctors they use it also for another purpose so this is why i say elephant is the most 2nd of the same animal.

across the united states, siblings to the north in canada, south across central and latin america, across africa and asia australia.as there are over 170 members of union,erparliamentary the union of parliaments and assemblies, and over 70 parliamentary commonwealth association, whose thai i am wearing today. forgive the garris colors. greenland has a parliament, at 64 degrees north and 52 degrees largest --e world's the world's smallest parliament, and the falkland islands, which meets in a building smaller than this. it has eight elected members, but a vigorous democratic tradition, as i have experienced. idea, obstructed by authoritarians, resisted by elites, fought by centex, -- fought by cynics, sometimes again itbut again and rises, the idea of a freely elected representative assembly, wherever people seek freedom and self rule. 1960's, it's and happened in the former european colonies in africa and asia. and central and eastern europe, in the countries freed from soviet control. and most recently, in the countries of the arab spring. and as we meet on the streets of hong kong, the indepen

military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in only god and still we are fighting you know body guards minds that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just pick. action is not only about taking from the earth but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. to last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the world. from the standpoint of want it but i am not cause the victims or what i will think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. there was an attempt in the global south to create an alternative imagination

africa. the central bank is forecasting the economy will expand this year. yed a surprise rebound in the second quarter. cranny today, manus spoke to south africa's minister for public enterprise. take a listen. >> we certainly think that we transparency in the way we operate. verticallyl integrated company. there are parts of the world where these entities are separated. generation in south africa, although largely comes from coal generated power, we are announcing diversity of sources. as far as transmission is concerned, that is considered a strategic national effort in most countries. that is the great that enables -- grid that enables energy sources to move. each country has its own idiosyncratic way of distributing electricity at a local level. we have our own peculiarities in our own regard. >> are you behind that? >> absolutely. absolutely. that's why we are working harder. francine: manus cranny joins us from the world economic forum in cape town. what else do you learn from him? man has a major portfolio. supplies 95% of power in south africa. what

host: and now from southeast africa to central america.atemala has long been embroiled in a kind of civil war, between enemy drug gangs. the country has one highest murder rates in the world. often, even the police appear helpless to do anything. but what about ordinary citizens? many hope to leave, dreaming of a future in the u.s. or europe. others opt to stay, determined to lead a decent life, amidst the violence. reporter: jhonny alexander carias says if you work on the street, you have to be a good judge of people. not all are nice, and you have to be able to deal with that. jhonny is a star of freestyle soccer, and he earns a living doing it. jhonny: almost a dollar. that's good. reporter: he sometimes makes $12 a day. he's 21 and lives from hand to mouth, as do many people in guatemala. half the population live in poverty. work is hard to come by. anand many jobs pay poorly. jhonny earns more than the minimum wage, freestyling on the streets for donations. he's often wondered if it might make sense to leave. jhonny: studying here is

africa and asia. in the 1990s central and eastern europe, countries freed from soviet control. most recently in the countries of the arab spring and in burma. as we meet on the streets of hong kong, the independence of the legislative counsel is the principle demand of the demonstrator demonstrators. in sudan people are fighting and dying for an assembly. so they had one simple remedy for which thousands have fought and died over the years to elect their own representatives. and assisting those demands is and should be a common endeavor between the great representative democracies, foremost among them the united states and united kingdom. of course it is not, and it never was quite that simple. as a descendant of the british emancipator, william wilberforce i'mafter wear your marking the arrival 400 years ago of the first enslaved african men and women in virginia. in 1619 there was no representative democracy for virginia's women, nor was their justice for those who already occupied the land. and having an assembly did not and could not even begin to right those wrongs. we als

hotter still for cars try that across northern parts of africa a little bit of cloud just into parts of morocco so the fair weather for ati central parts of africa those showers across the equitorial belt wrapping up. the $950.00 s. a clash of gun politics and a challenge to french colonial. any 2 part series al-jazeera world tells the dramatic story of how modern. give us back our lenten season. with a rare eyewitness testimony from the men who fought the french on the ground to newseum the battle for independence episode one rebel on his iraq. combat let's get your mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera polls of close in afghanistan in an election marred by several taleban attacks and low voter turnout several polling stations didn't open and some voters complained of not being registered yemen sooty rebels say they forced thousands of enemy troops to surrender after across the board a military campaign in saudi arabia a place in hong kong have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters the headquarters of the chinese army on the 5th anniversary of the original umbrella movement. of the body of t

these are things we gave to people fleeing ebola in central africa.ing that the united states has granted to people fleeing mass devastation. and they are able to work here and to live schmear a lot of times, they build a community here. and in this case, because this administration has gone after temporary protective status and so many cases, this is now in question. not only will they be able to come live here and work here, will they be able to come here at all? but, yes, aid is still outgoing. we have red cross. obviously, it's very different from if it was florida or if it was within the united states, but i do understand aid is going. it's a matter of how do you aid a community that is so devastated and help people who just need to escape to survive. >> julia, thank you! >>> coming up on "morning joe," evangelicals help the president win in 2016, but a lot has happened since then. does the trump campaign have a reason to worry in 2020? "morning joe" is back in a moment. a moment people tell me all the time i have the craziest job, the riskiest j

president trump to increase militarization of mexico's southern and northern borders migrants fromget africa, centralmerica, and the caribbean for apprehension and deportation. amy: for african migrants, the journey to mexico often takes months as they first must cross the ocean anand then embark on a dangerous trek through the colombian jungle and multiple central american borders. for more, we owe to mexico city to speak with carolina jimenez, americas deputy director for research at amnesty international. lay out the issue them a particularly for african migrants, with people to give up migrant -- when people think of migrants, they think of people from the northern triangle, but also mexicicans, they rarely thk about african migrants. talk about the crises they are facing in the fact that many of them are not even trying to come into the united dates picking it to canada. -- i get to canada. >> unfortunate, african migration to latin america in general is a very invisible issue come although in the last few years we have noticed an important increase in the number of africicans coming from mexico

to still fall caras try that across in all the parts of africa a little bit of cloud just into parts of morocco so the fair weather for r.t. central parts of africa has across the equitorial belt wrapping up. planet is feeling the heat of the climate an ecological emergency the world's leading scientists are warning of an existential crisis in the face of irreversible changes to the climate i'll be with you throughout as well on vironment correspondent nick carter we'll have reports from the front lines of the crisis and showcase new solutions to help called the threat al-jazeera brings you a new weekly planet s.o.s. what sets up the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet's. by this have a look at the top stories here of antigovernment protesters in hong kong the holding another mass rally denouncing what they describe as chinese tyranny solidarity rallies are also a jew to be held in major cities across the world yemen's who the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered to them following a months long military campaign who fears have been targeting the southern saudi region of not drop a

critics say it specifically targets those from central america, asia and africa to apply at this mexican border. it overturns a ruling in a lower court that blocked that change. it reverses asylum policy that's been in place since the carter administration. >>> a person survived after being hit by a b.a.r.t. train this afternoon. sky 7 shows us the station which was shut down around 4:00 this afternoon for about an hour. b.a.r.t. says someone was accidently hit by a train there. b.a.r.t. is not providing details. the victim is now at the hospital. passengers can expect backups in all directions as b.a.r.t. works to restore normal service to its schedule. >>> the judge from the brock turner case is looking for a job again. the stanford swimmer was convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. he was hired as a coach in san jose. chris reyes is there to explain why persky needs another new job. >> reporter: aaron persky issuing a statement moments ago confirming he was fired as the tennis coach of the varsity girls team here at lynn brook high school. it seemed many people were ju

fed decision it says central banks in advanced economies have provided monitoring accommodation to ease financial conditions. well south africa's economy may have avoided a technical recession last quarter but it is not out of the woods it remains a major concern the country's debt to g.d.p. ratio has grown steadily over the past decade and it's projected to reach more than 60 percent of a few years and it's right above the average in sub-saharan africa so while the ious well south africa borrowed heavily during the great recession lately it's had to bail out failing state firms like electric utility eskom and recently there's been weak growth leaving big holes in the budget to credit rating agencies have already lowered south african government debt to junk status moody's is set to take another look in november lower rating could mean higher borrowing costs. bronwyn cmon joins us now from johannesburg bronwyn some say interest rates need to go down to boost the economy why did the central bank decided to sit still this time. absolutely if you look at our growth picture it would seem that we should definitely have cut today but

africa's reserve bank monetary paul. the committee has left the repo rate the rate at which it lends back to other banks at 6.5 percent central bank's governor said the decision was unanimous the federal reserve also left its benchmark interest rate at 6.5 percent citing the recent u.s. fed decision it says central banks in advanced economies have provided monetary accommodation to ease financial conditions. well south africa's economy may have avoided a technical recession last quarter but it is not out of the woods it remains a major concern the country's debt to g.d.p. ratio has grown steadily over the past decade and is projected to reach more than 60 percent of the few years and it's right above the average in sub-saharan africa so while the ious well south africa borrowed heavily during the great recession lately it's had to bail out failing state firms like electric utility eskom and recently there has been weak growth leaving big holes in the budget to credit rating agencies have already lowered south african government debt to junk status moody's is set to take another look in november lower rating could mean higher

as china is building relationships with countries in africa and central asia, they're becoming a more popular security partner of choice. and the u.s. strategy has been get the most strategic countries to be on our side. as the chinese would complain, we got first dibs on allies and we got the best ones. but in this world, numbers matter. and so even if we have four or five countries who are on our side about a certain issue in the u.n., if 150 of them are on china's side, then we lose. i think we also have to think about the weakest links that china exploits and we have to build up our numbers to be the security partner of choice beyond just our immediate allies. >> thank you. >> this has been fascinating. thanks to the three of you. dr. krepinevich, you 25 years ago when we were both young whipper snappers, you wrote an article about the revolution of military affairs that really opened my eyes. and i'm grateful for that. i do have a question for you. you have evaluate that the balance of power in china's near seas currently favors the united states, although you have great concerns

it can find attractive opportunities in africa, central america, caribbean, more frontier countries thateople are not looking at as closely. paul: thank you. thank you for joining us. let's get a quick check of the latest with business flash headlines. apple is ready to borrow $7 million in its first bond sale in two years as chief -- cheap borrowing costs leave most companies flush with cash. in -- advantage of yields near all-time lows. apple has more than $200 billion in cash and securities and selling senior unsecured bonds in five parts. shery: no longer willing to accept planes that do not need specific nations. they have lost patience with glitches and poor quality that have delayed new models or forced costly appear -- repairs. they have outstanding orders for 250 planes. they will not take them without a cast-iron guarantee of trouble-free performance. paul: china airlines has sixlized an order for planes. the carrier already operates more than 50 -- 50 boeing planes and trend -- plans to transition operations from taipei to north america and europe. where speaking to -- we are